Hey, Best Friend. How About A Kiss Today Too? - Chapter 36: "...A-are you telling me to take it off?"

“…A-are you telling me to take it off?”

“Sa, sagi, sagi… Sagi-rii!?”

“Ah, thank you… It’s me…”

The words that tumbled out of my mouth in surprise at the current situation was, to say the least, almost nothing.

Well, it couldn’t be helped.

No matter how close of a childhood friend we were to each other, waking up to find ourselves in the same bed and unknowingly embracing each other was quite the situation.

Especially if the person you were unconsciously holding was someone you were aware of… even more…

“Oh, you-ou…rr! Y-your clothes!”

“Huh? Clothes… Hyaa!?”

A pathetic sound echoed, a second phase.

Both Sagiri and I were caught in it.

It was a white shirt.

Sagiri was in summer attire, wearing a white shirt.

All the buttons were undone, exposing his white skin that is usually hidden.

Sagiri noticed and quickly pulled the blanket to cover her chest, but… how should I put it… that blanket was the same color as her underwear.

I like light blue.

― I was talking about the blanket of course.

“D-did you see…?”

“It got camouflaged!! camo! I didn’t see anything!”

Sagiri asked while hiding the lower half of her face behind my blanket, and I gave her an answer that made no sense. What’s camo supposed to mean anyway?

W-well, it couldn’t be helped. In such an emergency, making a calm judgment was impossible. Huh?

“By the way, why are you in my room!?”

Having calmed down, I arrived at the obvious question.

It was getting bright outside, but the clock still showed 5:30 in the morning.

“I met your mom doing yoga in the park during my morning walk, and when I greeted her, she lent me the key to your room.”

“There are too many things to point out!?”

Isn’t it too early for a morning walk? Why is Mom doing something like that early in the morning? Why did she lend you the key so smoothly, and what are you scheming by casually accepting it? And you, coming in so casually…

“I’ll answer that question later, Renji-san…”

“What’s with that weird way of talking?”

“…Can I button up?”

“…”

I turned silent and faced away.

There’s no helping it; if I react weirdly here, I’ll be the loser.

Sagiri, on top of my bed, was rebuttoning her undone shirt. It was quite a situation to describe in words.

I still didn’t understand how things had come to this. All I knew was that the sound of fabric rubbing against each other had been stimulating my brain since early morning.

“Ah, well, you may turn?”

“This is my room… but…”

I was speechless.

I turned around and was speechless.

After the shirt, next is the bed.

Sagiri, wearing the school’s designated summer uniform, was lying on my bed.

Up until then, it was the same scene as a while ago. The problem was what came next.

This time, completely putting her head on my pillow, covering herself with my blanket, and using one hand to lift it while lying in a stylish school uniform pose, Sagiriwas patting the open space on my bed with her hand.

I’d appreciate it if she refrained from taking those actions before my understanding could catch up.

“…What are you doing?”

“Huh, not going to sleep?”

“I’m not going to sleep!?”

“But it’s only 5:30?”

“Who are you to say that!?”

Even if she woke up earlier than me, went for a walk, met my mom in the park, changed clothes, and came to my house, Sagiri would have been awake for about an hour already.

I didn’t expect to hear it’s still 5:30 from someone like her.

“Well, well, leaving aside the small details, we still have time until school, so let’s go back to sleep.”

“It’s not a small detail… and, school? Today is a holiday, isn’t it?”

“Huh? But there’s a job request. Look, Yuzurun said there’s a girl who wants to consult with us.”

“…Ah.”

“Hahahan? What’s with that expression of yours as if you forgot about it?”

While lying on the bed and maintaining her inviting posture, my childhood friend, who skillfully kept her face grinning, was impressive.

Last week, I was so focused on Sagiri that it didn’t leave a lasting memory. Thanks to the kiss from me, my memories got blown away… in other words, it was Sagiri’s fault that I forgot.

I’m not to blame, or am I…

Anyway, today was the Volunteer Club’s true purpose day, the day of activities as the Selfhood Research Club… Hahaha…

“Yawn…”

Despite my internal conflict and finally remembering, the school’s most beautiful girl let out a carefree yawn. This face, I could never show it outside; it was an utterly relaxed expression.

“…Aren’t you going to sleep?”

She asked as if it was only natural, but this was my bed.

“Ahh, I thought you forgot the promise, so I came to remind you, Renji.”

“Guh…!”

She accurately hit my weak point as if she had planned it.

Since I was at fault, I couldn’t say anything, and I had no choice but to unilaterally endure Sagiri’s attacks.

“Th-the uniform… It’ll get wrinkled, you know…”

I hated my weakness, finding only such a feeble counterattack.

“Huh, it’s just clothes, isn’t it?”

The level of our argument was so different that it didn’t even register as damage.

Despite being a beautiful girl, Sagiri had always been ridiculously lazy when it came to her clothes.

“…A-are you telling me to take it off?”

“N-no!!”

Sagiri, who suddenly had a realization, covered her body with the blanket.

What is she thinking!?

“B-but, I was seen by you just now…!”

“T-that’s because you were the one undressing, right!?”

“It means you saw it anyway!!”

“S-sor… S-sorry…”

There was no escape from the smoothly guided interrogation.

Is it my fault, or is it not just me? Why was she undressing in the first place…?

“Well, if you sleep with me, I’ll forgive you…”

“…!”

That’s cheating.

“…Let’s just sleep, best friend?”

“…Fine.”

It was a forbidden move.